Former Elmhurst College basketball player guilty of hate crime

A former Elmhurst Collegestudent was found guilty of a hate crime today for carving racial epithets into the window sill of a fellow student’s dorm room last December.

Myles G. Burton, 21, faces up to five years in prison for carving the sayings into the sill outside the room of a black student at Stanger Hall, according to police and court records. Burton, a former member of the college’s Blue Jays basketball team, was with two other team members on Dec. 8, when he carved the phrases about 11:25 p.m., according to prosecutors.